Lake Petocka
Cloudy, 10 mph wind from NNW
Time fished: 6pm-9pm
Fish sought: Brooder trout!
Fish caught: 8 Rainbow Trout, 2 Smallmouth Bass
I definitely SAW a lot more fish than I caught. The action was not fast by any means....it was some work, but fun. I used my switch rod, which allowed me to reach fish much further away than I would have been able to reach with my regular fly rod.
Plenty of surface activity. I couldn't buy a fish on topwater, though.
I tried a lot of flies, and only caught fish on two of them....an unweighted black woolly bugger, and a Chili Pepper with a small beadhead. Maybe I should have tried the Chili Pepper earlier in the evening. I put in on just before dark, and caught 2 Smallmouth Bass on it about 20' from shore, and 2 trout on some long casts towards the middle of the lake.
Its fairly rare to catch a smallmouth bass in this lake, its rather bizarre that I caught 2 in the same evening.
At one point, I brought one fly right in front of me, watched a trout swim up from underneath, inspect it, refuse it, and swim away. They CAN be finicky.
One of the last trout I caught was a pretty nice one and really chunky. It was so dark, I didn't bother measuring or trying to photograph it.
LOVED that sunset last night!
Any time you can cast to and hook Rainbow Trout and Smallmouth Bass in the same area of the lake is a great time for sure. I love both fish and know that it is rare to have that opportunity.
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